In present time there are a growing number of people at older age. Dementia is strongly correlated with age. Delaying older adults’ transition from living at their home to institutionalization is of major public health issue. Older individuals at the early stages of illness would prefer to remain living in the community. Our study aimed to determine predictors for institutionalization in patien...

OBJECTIVE to ascertain the influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' balance and risk of falls. METHOD to evaluate the risk of falls, the Berg Balance Scale and the Timed Get Up and Go test were used; and for measuring postural balance, static stabilometry was used, with acquisition of the elliptical area of 95% and mean velocities on the x and y axes of center of press...

We seek to deepen understanding of the micro-foundations of institutionalization while contributing to a sociological theory of markets by investigating the puzzle of price bubbles in financial markets. We find that such markets, despite textbook conditions of high efficiency – perfect information, atomistic agents, no uncertainty – quickly develop patterns consistent with institutionalization ...

Background Good decision-making requires gathering and using sufficient information. Several knowledge translation platforms have been introduced in Burkina Faso to support evidence-informed decision-making. One of these is the rapid response service for health. This platform aims to provide quick access for policy-makers in Burkina Faso to highquality research evidence about health systems. Th...

this paper tries to explore and asses the political party activities in iran after the islamic revolution. it believes that that formation of political parties was a result of political modernization in iran after the revolution. the authors further examine this modernization based on huntington's theory about modernization including stages of faction creation (factionalism), polarization,...

I propose a conceptual model of field level change that links the processes of inter-organizational learning and de-institutionalization. I offer a series of research propositions that address how a firm and its adversarial stakeholder groups might cooperatively engage over an issue of mutual interest and ultimately create new knowledge together and how this new knowledge might then encourage a...